'''[http://www.openmusicarchive.org Open Music Archive]''' initiated by artists Eileen Simpson & Ben White, is a collaborative project to source, digitise, and distribute out of copyright music recordings.

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== Free-to-air CD ==

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== British Art Show 8 - Southampton ==

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'''9 October - 15 January 2017'''<br/>

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''Open Monday to Sunday 10am - 5pm''

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British Art Show 8<br/>

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Bargate Monument<br/>

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High Street,<br/>

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Southampton, SO14 7LP

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''Admission Free''

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Auditory Learning is part of Eileen Simpson & Ben White’s ongoing project to generate public resources, using the archive as a vehicle for collaborative activity. Using tactics of hacking and gleaning they explore legal loopholes to find and distribute out-of-copyright archive material for their Open Music Archive.

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== Music For Children - FOUND at The Foundling Musuem, London ==

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[http://foundlingmuseum.org.uk/events/found/ FOUND]<br/>

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''27 May 2016 — 04 Sep 2016''

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[http://www.foundlingmuseum.org.uk The Foundling Museum]<br/>

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40 Brunswick Square<br/>

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London<br/>

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We found Carl Orff and Gunild Keetman’s 1958 vinyl record ''Music for Children'' in the personal record collection of architect Luis Barragán, whilst on an artists’ [[Open_House_Divided_Estates|residency in Mexico City in 2012]]. The record works as a kind of audio source code for teaching music to children, in the mode of play.

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Treating the found record as an artefact, as an object to be excavated, we detect, extract and separate sounds from the original vinyl record. Although the complete rights to the music remain in copyright until [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2061 2061], we free copyright-expired sounds by dissecting copyright-controlled elements to generate a '[http://www.openmusicarchive.org/mfc public sonic inventory]'. This inventory contains thousands of samples from ''Music for Children'' and is freely released into the public domain for reuse.

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Xylophones, glockenspiels, drum hits, crashing cymbals and fragments of children’s voices echo in the [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ copyleft licensed] work, which is pressed onto a vinyl record and offered for free download to be found by its future audiences:

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'''Live event featuring Leafcutter John'''

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Thursday 30 Jun 2016<br/>

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Doors 18:00, event 18:30<br/>

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Tickets £5

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[http://foundlingmuseum.org.uk/events/open-music-archive/ More info and tickets]

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FOUND at The Foundling Museum is curated by Cornelia Parker

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== British Art Show 8 - Norwich ==

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'''24 June - 4 September 2016'''<br/>

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Admission Free

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St Georges Street<br/>

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Auditory Learning is part of Eileen Simpson & Ben White’s ongoing project to find and distribute out-of-copyright archival material. Sourcing vinyl 45 rpm records of chart hits from 1962 – the last year that commercial recordings can be retrieved for public use, due to recent copyright revisions – the artists have extracted over 50,000 sounds to produce a public sonic inventory.

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In the gallery, eight modified turntables play a new sound work assembled from the inventory of individual notes, percussive elements and vocal phonemes. The surrounding graphic fragments recall vinyl 7 inch printed paper sleeves.

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Auditory Learning will change and develop throughout the exhibition’s tour. Reassembled as part of a live event during British Art Show 8 in Leeds, in Southampton it will form the soundtrack for a new film.

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All work is copyleft licensed and available to download or cut-on-demand at [http://www.openmusicarchive.org/auditorylearning openmusicarchive.org/auditorylearning].

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== KALEIDOSCOPE - Modern Art Oxford ==

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We're developing a new project for the 50 year anniversary of Modern Art Oxford.

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'''KALEIDOSCOPE: A Moment of Grace'''<br/>

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[https://www.modernartoxford.org.uk Modern Art Oxford]<br/>

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30 Pembroke Street<br/>

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Oxford<br/>

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OX1 1BP

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Exhibition runs:<br/>

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''Tuesday 29 March - Sunday 22nd May 2016''

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Preview:<br/>

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''Friday 15 April 2016''

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'''Premonition 2037'''

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In the spirit of the 1960s project of the Museum of Modern Art Oxford, to make contemporary art freely accessible to the widest audience, the artists produce an archive of recorded sounds - auditory traces of activity in the gallery, available for use by a future public, without restriction and beyond the scope of the current copyright term.

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Tape hiss, voices, musical fragments, audience shuffles and applause, recorded at past public events, are digitized from videotapes and audio cassettes held in the MAO archive, to generate a new sonic inventory. The artists process the archival sounds using emerging information retrieval technologies, to create a bank of source material and a new work for exhibition. A series of live events with invited collaborators, reanimate these sounds on a specially assembled platform. The events will be recorded and released with copyleft licenses.

Auditory Learning is part of Eileen Simpson & Ben White’s ongoing project to find and distribute out-of-copyright archival material. Sourcing vinyl 45 rpm records of chart hits from 1962 – the last year that commercial recordings can be retrieved for public use, due to recent copyright revisions – the artists have extracted over 50,000 sounds to produce a public sonic inventory.

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In the gallery, eight modified turntables play a new sound work assembled from the inventory of individual notes, percussive elements and vocal phonemes. The surrounding graphic fragments recall vinyl 7 inch printed paper sleeves.

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Auditory Learning will change and develop throughout the exhibition’s tour. Reassembled as part of a live event during British Art Show 8 in Leeds, in Southampton it will form the soundtrack for a new film.

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All work is copyleft licensed and available to download or cut-on-demand at [http://www.openmusicarchive.org/auditorylearning openmusicarchive.org/auditorylearning].

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== Auditory Learning EP ==

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'''Open Music Archive presents Auditory Learning - K Barley'''

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The EP is released on the occasion of British Art Show 8 opening in Edinburgh on Feb 12th 2016

This event reanimates both public domain archive material and copyleft recordings generated by the artists and their collaborators. The event brings together the first live remix of a new work produced the British Art Show 8 alongside the presentation of two recent Open Music Archive projects.

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Auditory Learning (2015)<br/>

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performed by Kirk Barley

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ATL 2067 (2013)<br/>

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audiovisual DJ set by Ben White

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Local Recall (2014)<br/>

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live soundtrack by Graham Massey

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[[HCMF@BAS8|photos]]

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''Produced by [http://www.hcmf.co.uk hcmf//] in partnership with [http://www.leeds.gov.uk/artgallery Leeds Art Gallery] and [http://britishartshow8.com/ British Art Show 8]''

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== British Art Show 8 - Leeds Art Gallery ==

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We're developing a new project for [http://www.britishartshow8.com British Art Show 8]

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For British Art Show 8 we harvest copyright-expired chart hit records from 1962, the last retrievable from the public domain until 2034 due to legal revisions. Hacking emerging information retrieval technologies, we strip away proprietary elements to generate a [http://www.openmusicarchive.org/auditorylearning public sonic inventory] which provides a soundtrack for a new audio-visual work, assembled during the exhibition tour.

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'''9 October 2015 - 10 January 2016'''<br/>

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Open Tuesday - Saturday 10am - 5pm, Sunday 12 - 4pm.

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[http://britishartshow8.com/page/leeds-1519 Leeds Art Gallery]<br/>

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The Headrow<br/>

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Leeds, LS1 3AA

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''BAS8 opens at Leeds Art Gallery on 9 October 2015 and continues until 10 January 2016. It then tours to: Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh, and Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh 13 February - 8 May 2016; Norwich University of the Arts and Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery 24 June - 4 September 2016; and John Hansard Gallery and Southampton City Art Gallery 8 October 2016 - 14 January 2017.''

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[[Struggle_In_Jerash|Struggle in Jerash]] is showing as part of [http://www.tabakalera.eu/en/moving-image-contours-points-surrounding-movement Moving Image Contours: Points for a Surrounding Movement], the inaugural exhibition of [http://www.tabakalera.eu Tabakalera], San San Sebastián.

'''[http://www.openmusicarchive.org/freetoaircd.php Send a donation of £5] and we'll post you a copy of the CD'''

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[[Open_House_Divided_Estates|Open House | Divided Estates]] is showing at [http://www.hiroshima-moca.jp/main_e/ Hiroshima MOCA] as part of a programme curated by Yukie Kamiya.

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Shot on location in Mexico City, ''Open House | Divided Estates'' takes as its starting point the intimate spaces of Casa Barragán, the former home of architect Luis Barragán, and his large collection of vinyl records. Shelves of vinyl, record turntables and speaker systems are installed in almost every room in Barragán’s house, including hidden speakers in the garden. The film reanimates the architect's extensive record collection through playback, choreographed camera moves and lip synch.

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''Open House | Divided Estates'' attempts to open out the public domain territory of Barragán’s record collection while exploring the grey zone of the building's image rights. The film explores both the complex web of propriety rights locked within the vinyl collection and images of the house in relation to their legal position and public access.

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The soundtrack to ''Open House | Divided Estates'' is created entirely from copyright-expired recordings and fair use samples taken from the extensive and idiosyncratic record collection. For Hiroshima MoCA a new version of ''Open House | Divided Estates'' has been assembled for distribution in Japan. The film and its soundtrack are distributed under a copyleft license (cc by-sa3.0).

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[http://www.halle.co.uk/halle-st-peters.aspx Hallé St Peter’s]<br/>

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Ancoats<br/>

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[http://www.ica.org.uk Institute of Contemporary Arts]

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covered / reworked and remixed by: [http://www.myspace.com/magicarm MAGIC ARM], [http://www.myspace.com/drumstreetsefa SERAFINA STEER] and [http://www.myspace.com/hestuk HEST] with support from DJs [http://www.myspace.com/djdysu DYSU] and [http://www.myspace.com/djtendrawandthegypsiesdog Tendraw] playing a new set using the [[Declose|Declose copyleft battle record]] and more . . .

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For their new live artwork Local Recall, Open Music Archive explore the ghostly echoes that persist through repetition in the playback of music and draw line between the model industrial city of the late 19th Century and post-industrial Manchester of the early 1990s.

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Open Music Archive ran workshops with young people from [http://42ndstreet.org.uk 42nd Street] with [http://www.unityradio.fm/ Unity Radio 92.8FM], to remix, cut-up, loop and re-assemble late 19th Century music gleaned from player piano rolls. The results will be played back and performed live for a 21st Century audience.

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27 September - 5 October 2008

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Recordings ripped from Barragán's vinyl collection are used as source material for a live event – ranging from early Mexican folk recordings, European minimalism, Central African field recordings, and American cabaret. Guest artists and producers are invited to process and remix the material to create copyleft licensed live performances:

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[http://www.tomwhitesound.com/ Tom White]<br/>

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This new event brings to life works with a legal status identified primarily through the date of the death of the author, and echoes an event which took place in October 2012 at Casa Barragán during the week of Día de los Muertos. At the present time, Mexico currently boasts the most restrictive copyright law worldwide, with copyright in recorded sound to 100 years from both the date of recording and the death of the author. Legal frameworks governing the material in the EU, enables a different subset of the collection to be freed for use at MK Gallery.

For [http://www.nottinghamcontemporary.org/programme/future/disclosures-ii/ Disclosures II], Eileen Simpson and Ben White (Open Music Archive) use [[Declose]], the vinyl battle tool created for [http://www.gasworks.org.uk/exhibitions/detail.php?id=344 Disclosures I], to make music for a party in the barn.

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''Disclosures II is a project realised by [http://www.nottinghamcontemporary.org/ Nottingham Contemporary] in partnership with [http://www.gasworks.org.uk Gasworks].''

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The work appropriates the tactics of Mexico City's ambulantes – travelling music vendors who ride the city's Metro system selling pirate CDs while broadcasting chopped-up preview snippets of their catalogue from hacked backpack sound systems. The audio installation features out-of-copyright snippets, loops and fragments of transfers from Barragán's vinyl collection – echoing elements of the soundtrack for the artists’ film ''Open House | Divided Estates'' (screening at MK Gallery in May) and previewing elements to be used in the forthcoming ''Barragán Sound System'' event (which will take place at MK Gallery in June).

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Chelsea College of Arts<br/>

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''exploring public territory in a peninsula haunted by pirates and bootleggers.'' <br>

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''a project by Eileen Simpson & Ben White''

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We are contributing to [https://www.flickr.com/photos/chanceprojects/sets/72157643347712633 Utopographies] at Chelea College of Arts.

''Playhead'' (2013) by Eileen Simpson and Ben White builds on an ongoing project initiated by Open Music Archive for 17th Biennale of Sydney 2010 taking as a starting point the 1952 release Harry Smith's ''Anthology of American Folk Music''. The project brings together alternative public domain versions of tracks from the anthology not closed down by copyright, from non-attributed folk versions and covers to commercial recordings whose proprietary interests have expired. New copyleft iterations are simultaneously generated from elements of the archive material.

''Schizophonia explores the histories of music, sound and speech as reinterpreted and written by artists. Many of these artists share an interest in sonic archives; they collect, revive and generate recordings - whether unconventional, popular, politicised or dormant - and examine the ways in which these are circulated.''

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'''ATL 2067''' imagines a future Atlanta. 1920s recordings from the city, fixed during the early days of the recording industry and controlled under copyright in the USA until [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2067#2067 2067], mutate into new beats for emcees and rappers. Special guest hosts bring exclusive live performances:

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Outdoor screening of '''Screen Tests''', and '''Dragline''' with live musical accompaniment by Ben White. The music, which has been sourced from out-of-copyright early 20th Century 78rpm records will be manipulated in real-time.

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'''The Brilliant and the Dark: B Side Samples for Remix'''

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Door Times : 8pm

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[http://cafeoto.co.uk Cafe OTO]<br/>

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The 1969 archive operatic work for women's voices – as re-worked via all-female choir Gaggle and released in 2011 – is remixed live by:

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[http://www.karengwyer.com KAREN GWYER]

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[http://www.openmusicarchive.org OPEN MUSIC ARCHIVE]

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We are learning about how intellectual property works in Jordan as part of an [http://www.gasworks.org.uk/international/ international fellowship] organised by Gasworks. We have a studio [http://www.makanhouse.net/ here]

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Open Music Archive has been invited by [http://desitio.net/ de_sitio] to develop a research and production residency that takes as a departure point, the music archive of Casa Estudio Luis Barragán with funding from [http://www.miriad.mmu.ac.uk/ MIRIAD]

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[http://www.casaluisbarragan.org/ Casa Luis Barragán]<br/>

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''Delving into the personal archive of Mexican architect Luis Barragán (1902-1988), UK artists Eileen Simpson and Ben White (Open Music Archive) explore the architect’s record collection, housed in his former private residence. Barragán, well known for his devotion to the practice of solitude, clearly found refuge in music. Record players and speaker systems are installed in almost every room in his house (including the garden) and the house and collection operate as a kind of storage and playback system.''

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''Through their research at Casa Barragán, the artists have explored the legal terrain of the music in Barragán’s record collection – particularly in relation to the complex web of propriety rights locked within the recordings. At the present time Mexico currently boasts the most restrictive copyright law worldwide, with legal revisions in 1994 and 2003 extending copyright in recorded sound to 100 years from both the date of recording and the death of the author. The artists gleaned material from the collection that achieved the status ‘copyright-expired’ before the legal changes, in an attempt to extract public domain music and audio fragments from vinyl and shellac 78s.''

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''Barragán Sound System is a live event using public archive recordings as source material, with guest producers invited to process and remix through short live performances. The event, which takes place during the week of Día de los Muertos, brings to life works, with a legal status identified primarily through the date of the death of the author. Barragán Sound System features: Live performances by invited guests [http://www.rogeliososa.info/ Rogeilo Sosa], [http://www.carminaescobar.com Carmina Escobar] and Andres Solis who will remix the archive source; an Open Music Archive DJ set of public tracks from the collection, plus a preview of the artists forthcoming film shot at Casa Barragán.''

For [http://www.gasworks.org.uk/exhibitions/detail.php?id=344/ Disclosures] Eileen Simpson & Ben White create '''Declose''', a project to create a [http://www.creativecommons.org/ copyleft licensed] 12" vinyl scratch tool containing a range of samples, beats and extracts made from the out-of-copyright blues, jazz and folk housed in the [http://www.openmusicarchive.org Open Music Archive].

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''[http://desitio.net/ de_sitio] is a non-profit platform with no permanent address devoted to the conception, development and promotion of contemporary art projects. de_sitio seeks to expand the possibilities of collaboration in different contexts with different organizations and individuals in order to foster continuous and consistent exchange in the development of ideas and concrete research. These are shared through different formats such as publications, residencies, exhibitions and other public programs. Focusing on the work process, de_sitio is a flexible and critical platform that prioritizes those projects based on dialogue.''

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== The Brilliant and the Dark - VBKÖ, Vienna ==

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'''DJ Dysu & Man One'''<br>

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For '''Clips, Blips and Loops #2''', we are inviting producers, musicians and DJs to contribute to the collection of free source tools available [[Clips_Blips_and_Loops_2#Downloads|here]]. This is an extension of a project developed in Stockholm, November 2007. In February 2008 all of the tools will be gathered together to produce a CD that will be freely distributed at a public performance at an event in Geneva on 13th March.

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''As the first Jordanian audio-visual works begin to fall into the public domain, a constellation of interests are translating, drafting and revising copyrights laws, trade agreements and licences to control the flow of culture and build new markets.''

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''Against the backdrop of these emerging intellectual property markets, in 2008 artists Eileen Simpson and Ben White embarked on a period of research in Amman, Jordan – speaking to lawyers, copyright activists, software developers, artists, musicians, journalists, curators, film makers and critics – in an attempt to seek out the common cultural resources of Jordan’s public domain.''

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For Loose Booty, a new exhibition by [http://www.pearlprojects.com/ Pearl Projects], Eileen Simpson & Ben White have brought together a number of different cover versions of [http://www.openmusicarchive.org/browse_tag.php?tag=boogie%20woogie Pinetop’s Boogie Woogie], originally written by Clarence ‘Pinetop’ Smith of Chicago (d. 1929). The various out-of-copyright versions, including those by Bing Crosby and Honey Hill, and a new track made entirely from the out-of-copyright elements, are to be burned on CDs and given away for free at the exhibition as a way of disseminating materials that are in the public domain.

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'''After Party''' - featuring Open Music Archive out-of-copyright/copyleft laptop and DJ set <br>

In an attempt to cross the boundaries of idea and practice, Iaspis and Konstfack initiated a project on production, distribution and ownership of cultural matter and artistic knowledge starting in December 2006. On 17th November 2007 the project will open itself up by letting the gathered knowledge be combined with that of invited guests, in an event aiming at an in-depth look on the making and owning of contemporary culture.

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'''Broadcast: scheduled for 2021'''

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We were invited by Sean Dockray to contribute to his [http://shadowboxing.rca.ac.uk/artists/sean-dockray/ Public Monument]. We produced a future public domain radio programme – projecting forward a selection of out-of-copyright archive music and recordings currently controlled under copyrights due to expire by the time of broadcast in the year 2021.

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In 2011 in the UK, the term of copyright in a musical composition is limited to the life of the author plus 70 years, while the term of copyright in a sound recording is limited to 50 years from the date of recording. Once this bundle of proprietary rights expires, a music recording enters the public domain and is held in common. The legal frameworks, which define the limits of the public domain, are by no means fixed. The future of the public domain is precarious – the field of culture is increasingly colonised for private interests as proprietors of intellectual property continually lobby for the extension of their control.

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The ''Pre-release'' radio programme was presented by [http://www.danscott.org.uk Dan Scott]

[http://www.amazon.co.uk/Feedback-4-E-Karaba/dp/0955479681/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=gateway&qid=1201706510&sr=8-1 Feedback #4] Ideas that inform, construct and concern the production of exhibitions and events. Edited by Elpida Karaba & Nayia Yiakoumaki

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[http://www.tempofestival.se/ Tempo Documentary Festival]<br/>

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'''Friday 11 March 18:00 – 19:20 Victoria 7'''<br/>

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'''Saturday 12 March 14:15 – 15:45 Victoria 4'''

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'''Saturday 12 March 12:30 – 13:30 Skrapan'''<br/>

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''Through re-enactment and lip-synching, Open Music Archive present a series of musical vignettes structured around public domain recordings from 1920s blues and jazz to 1960s soul via 1930s dance band crooners.''

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''Al Bowlly’s 1936 newsreel appearance is scrambled (You’ve Got What Gets Me reversed and flipped as Me Gets What Got You’ve) and Vaughn De Leath’s 1927 crooning of Are You Lonesome Tonight? is melodically de-saturated and retroactively mutated by a 1960s monotone female Elvis.''

As an introduction to the Free-to-air project, Eileen Simpson & Ben White invited guest DJs Jon K (Eyes Down/Fat City) and Upstate Rockers to explore sampling, reworking and exchange via the cover version - from Reggae Elvis and a Dubstep Prince, to a kid's cover of Slade via Detroit HipHop. Both DJs presented special sets made entirely from cover versions, bootlegs and mash ups. [[Free-to-air | More info]]

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An evening of music inspired by musicologist, record collector and artist Harry Smith’s Anthology of American Folk Music. Simpson and White have collected parallel public domain versions of the anthology recordings not closed down by copyright - from non-attributed folk versions, to commercial recordings whose proprietary interests have expired. For this event musicians and producers have been invited to perform covers and remixes of Parallel Anthology for a night of plugged and unplugged performances.

The BERLIN DOCUMENTARY FORUM is a new programmatic initiative at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt. It is an interdisciplinary festival showcasing visual, audiovisual and performative works from all over the world. It is also the first festival to stage a forum that debates the contemporary documentary as a politically committed form of representation.

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London Seen will be launched at this year’s edition of LOOP and functions as an exploration into moving-image practices on London’s contemporary art scene; prolific in exhibition formats, interactions and challenges to conventional circuits. The project brings to Barcelona platforms and exhibition spaces which reflect innovative engagement with and display of video and film. Gathering different types of sites for display, production, distribution and/or archiving of moving-image works, London Seen project aims to generate a reflection around the specific treatment of video and film, by bringing together the participant’s practices and trajectories.

Join Eileen Simpson and Ben White for an evening of free music launching their Parallel Anthology project inspired by musicologist and artist Harry Smith’s Anthology of American Folk Music. Simpson and White have collected parallel public domain versions of the anthology recordings not closed down by copyright; from non-attributed folk versions, to commercial recordings whose proprietary interests have expired. The evening will feature a free CD giveaway and a DJ set featuring Parallel Anthology tracks, recordings from their Open Music Archive and new copyleft remixes, covers and versions made with a range of collaborators.

The Women's Library exhibitions are open Monday to Friday, 9.30am to 5.30pm, with a late evening opening on Thursday until 8.00pm.

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'''I Want to See / Struggle in Jerash'''<br/>

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Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige / Eileen Simpson and Ben White

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'''16th April 2010 - 30th May 2010'''<br/>

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''As the first Jordanian audio-visual works begin to fall into the public domain, a constellation of interests are translating, drafting and revising copyrights laws, trade agreements and licences to control the flow of culture and build new markets.''

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''Against the backdrop of these emerging intellectual property markets, in 2008 artists Eileen Simpson and Ben White embarked on a period of research in Amman, Jordan – speaking to lawyers, copyright activists, software developers, artists, musicians, journalists, curators, film makers and critics – in an attempt to seek out the common cultural resources of Jordan’s public domain. ''

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''The result is Struggle In Jerash – a project convened around a lost 1957 Jordanian feature film of the same name, which fell out-of-copyright the year of the artists’ residency, and is used as a catalyst to explore value and meaning in archival material.''

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Conference "Our Way, by the Way. New Strategies for Culture" took place in the Warsaw University Library between the 11th and the 13th of December 2009. Lectures and discussions were dedicated to the issues of alternative strategies for independent culture and its possible transformations

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[http://www.starandshadow.org.uk/ Star and Shadow]<br>

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''Organised by Polytechnic & Kate Sweeney. Part of the Polytechnic ''ecologies'' programme''

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'''Autoitalia South East London'''<br>

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We're working with [http://www.ptechnic.org/ Polytechnic] to develop an evening of free music at Star and Shadow, an open volunteer-run social space and Cinema in Newcastle. We're inviting bands, musicians, producers and DJs to perform covers, versions, remixes or interpretations of the 1920s and 30s out-of-copyright folk, blues, and jazz from the Open Music Archive. A series of live plugged and unplugged performances will be recorded and licensed under Creative Commons ShareAlike, generating a new resource - free for use and reuse in the future.

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'''[http://www.gasworks.org.uk/ Gasworks]'''<BR>

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Open Music Archive hosted [http://www.kunsthausgraz.steiermark.at/cms/beitrag/10329217/10626384/ an evening of free music] in the living room of the [http://www.kunsthausgraz.steiermark.at/cms/beitrag/10311547/10590368/ Generosity Broadcasting House]

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'''FREE GIFT:''' a [[Perforations| copyleft licensed CD]] featuring the new compositions and source files will be given away on the night.

Outdoor screening of '''Broadcast Times''', '''Screen Tests''', and '''Dragline''' with live musical accompaniment by Ben White. The music, which has been sourced from out-of-copyright early 20th Century 78rpm records will be manipulated in real-time using samplers and DJ turntables.

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Archive. Distributing direct to the public, the outlet makes available the out-of-copyright and copyleft

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''The outlet is set up in collaboration with designer Ismini Adami.''

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For [http://disclosuresproject.wordpress.com/disclosures-ii-the-middle-ages/ Disclosures II], Eileen Simpson and Ben White (Open Music Archive) use [[Declose]], the vinyl battle tool created for [http://www.gasworks.org.uk/exhibitions/detail.php?id=344 Disclosures I], to make music for a party in the barn.

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''Disclosures II is a project realised by [http://www.nottinghamcontemporary.org/ Nottingham Contemporary] in partnership with [http://www.gasworks.org.uk Gasworks]. Curated by [http://annacolin.wordpress.com/ Anna Colin]''

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For [http://www.gasworks.org.uk/exhibitions/detail.php?id=344/ Disclosures] Eileen Simpson & Ben White create '''Declose''', a project to create a [http://www.creativecommons.org/ copyleft licensed] 12" vinyl scratch tool containing a range of samples, beats and extracts made from the out-of-copyright blues, jazz and folk housed in the [http://www.openmusicarchive.org Open Music Archive].

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For Loose Booty, a new exhibition by Pearl Projects, Eileen Simpson & Ben White have brought together a number of different cover versions of [http://www.openmusicarchive.org/browse_tag.php?tag=boogie%20woogie Pinetop's Boogie Woogie], originally written by Clarence "Pinetop" Smith of Chicago (d. 1929). The various out-of-copyright versions, including those by Bing Crosby and Honey Hill, and a new track made entirely from the out-of-copyright elements, are to be burned on CDs and given away for free at the exhibition as a way of disseminating materials that are in the public domain.

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[http://opencongress.omweb.org Open Congress] was Inspired by Free Software: software that challenges conventional practices of authorship, ownership and distribution. The innovative congress explored these implications for art, visual culture and cultural production in general.

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British Art Show 8 - Southampton

Auditory Learning is part of Eileen Simpson & Ben White’s ongoing project to generate public resources, using the archive as a vehicle for collaborative activity. Using tactics of hacking and gleaning they explore legal loopholes to find and distribute out-of-copyright archive material for their Open Music Archive.

Music For Children - FOUND at The Foundling Musuem, London

We found Carl Orff and Gunild Keetman’s 1958 vinyl record Music for Children in the personal record collection of architect Luis Barragán, whilst on an artists’ residency in Mexico City in 2012. The record works as a kind of audio source code for teaching music to children, in the mode of play.

Treating the found record as an artefact, as an object to be excavated, we detect, extract and separate sounds from the original vinyl record. Although the complete rights to the music remain in copyright until 2061, we free copyright-expired sounds by dissecting copyright-controlled elements to generate a 'public sonic inventory'. This inventory contains thousands of samples from Music for Children and is freely released into the public domain for reuse.

Xylophones, glockenspiels, drum hits, crashing cymbals and fragments of children’s voices echo in the copyleft licensed work, which is pressed onto a vinyl record and offered for free download to be found by its future audiences:

British Art Show 8 - Norwich

Auditory Learning is part of Eileen Simpson & Ben White’s ongoing project to find and distribute out-of-copyright archival material. Sourcing vinyl 45 rpm records of chart hits from 1962 – the last year that commercial recordings can be retrieved for public use, due to recent copyright revisions – the artists have extracted over 50,000 sounds to produce a public sonic inventory.

In the gallery, eight modified turntables play a new sound work assembled from the inventory of individual notes, percussive elements and vocal phonemes. The surrounding graphic fragments recall vinyl 7 inch printed paper sleeves.

Auditory Learning will change and develop throughout the exhibition’s tour. Reassembled as part of a live event during British Art Show 8 in Leeds, in Southampton it will form the soundtrack for a new film.

In the spirit of the 1960s project of the Museum of Modern Art Oxford, to make contemporary art freely accessible to the widest audience, the artists produce an archive of recorded sounds - auditory traces of activity in the gallery, available for use by a future public, without restriction and beyond the scope of the current copyright term.

Tape hiss, voices, musical fragments, audience shuffles and applause, recorded at past public events, are digitized from videotapes and audio cassettes held in the MAO archive, to generate a new sonic inventory. The artists process the archival sounds using emerging information retrieval technologies, to create a bank of source material and a new work for exhibition. A series of live events with invited collaborators, reanimate these sounds on a specially assembled platform. The events will be recorded and released with copyleft licenses.

British Art Show 8 - Edinburgh

Auditory Learning is part of Eileen Simpson & Ben White’s ongoing project to find and distribute out-of-copyright archival material. Sourcing vinyl 45 rpm records of chart hits from 1962 – the last year that commercial recordings can be retrieved for public use, due to recent copyright revisions – the artists have extracted over 50,000 sounds to produce a public sonic inventory.

In the gallery, eight modified turntables play a new sound work assembled from the inventory of individual notes, percussive elements and vocal phonemes. The surrounding graphic fragments recall vinyl 7 inch printed paper sleeves.

Auditory Learning will change and develop throughout the exhibition’s tour. Reassembled as part of a live event during British Art Show 8 in Leeds, in Southampton it will form the soundtrack for a new film.

Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival @ British Art Show 8

This event reanimates both public domain archive material and copyleft recordings generated by the artists and their collaborators. The event brings together the first live remix of a new work produced the British Art Show 8 alongside the presentation of two recent Open Music Archive projects.

British Art Show 8 - Leeds Art Gallery

For British Art Show 8 we harvest copyright-expired chart hit records from 1962, the last retrievable from the public domain until 2034 due to legal revisions. Hacking emerging information retrieval technologies, we strip away proprietary elements to generate a public sonic inventory which provides a soundtrack for a new audio-visual work, assembled during the exhibition tour.

BAS8 opens at Leeds Art Gallery on 9 October 2015 and continues until 10 January 2016. It then tours to: Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh, and Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh 13 February - 8 May 2016; Norwich University of the Arts and Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery 24 June - 4 September 2016; and John Hansard Gallery and Southampton City Art Gallery 8 October 2016 - 14 January 2017.

Shot on location in Mexico City, Open House | Divided Estates takes as its starting point the intimate spaces of Casa Barragán, the former home of architect Luis Barragán, and his large collection of vinyl records. Shelves of vinyl, record turntables and speaker systems are installed in almost every room in Barragán’s house, including hidden speakers in the garden. The film reanimates the architect's extensive record collection through playback, choreographed camera moves and lip synch.

Open House | Divided Estates attempts to open out the public domain territory of Barragán’s record collection while exploring the grey zone of the building's image rights. The film explores both the complex web of propriety rights locked within the vinyl collection and images of the house in relation to their legal position and public access.

The soundtrack to Open House | Divided Estates is created entirely from copyright-expired recordings and fair use samples taken from the extensive and idiosyncratic record collection. For Hiroshima MoCA a new version of Open House | Divided Estates has been assembled for distribution in Japan. The film and its soundtrack are distributed under a copyleft license (cc by-sa3.0).

Local Recall - Ancoats, Manchester

For their new live artwork Local Recall, Open Music Archive explore the ghostly echoes that persist through repetition in the playback of music and draw line between the model industrial city of the late 19th Century and post-industrial Manchester of the early 1990s.

Open Music Archive ran workshops with young people from 42nd Street with Unity Radio 92.8FM, to remix, cut-up, loop and re-assemble late 19th Century music gleaned from player piano rolls. The results will be played back and performed live for a 21st Century audience.

Featuring: DJ sets, live piano performance and a new audio-visual work with specially commissioned soundtrack produced by Graham Massey (808 State) using 1990s music technology.

Barragán Sound System - MK Gallery

Recordings ripped from Barragán's vinyl collection are used as source material for a live event – ranging from early Mexican folk recordings, European minimalism, Central African field recordings, and American cabaret. Guest artists and producers are invited to process and remix the material to create copyleft licensed live performances:

This new event brings to life works with a legal status identified primarily through the date of the death of the author, and echoes an event which took place in October 2012 at Casa Barragán during the week of Día de los Muertos. At the present time, Mexico currently boasts the most restrictive copyright law worldwide, with copyright in recorded sound to 100 years from both the date of recording and the death of the author. Legal frameworks governing the material in the EU, enables a different subset of the collection to be freed for use at MK Gallery.

Open House | Divided Estates - MK Gallery

Open House | Divided Estates (2013)
A film by Eileen Simpson and Ben White

1 May - 15 June 2014

A looped screening in the first floor Video Space.

Shot on location in Mexico City, Open House | Divided Estates takes as its starting point the intimate spaces of Casa Barragán, the former home of architect Luis Barragán, and his large collection of vinyl records. Shelves of vinyl, record turntables and speaker systems are installed in almost every room in Barragán’s house, including hidden speakers in the garden. The film reanimates the architect's extensive record collection through playback, choreographed camera moves and lip synch.

Open House | Divided Estates attempts to open out the public domain territory of Barragán’s record collection while exploring the grey zone of the building's image rights. The film explores both the complex web of propriety rights locked within the vinyl collection and images of the house in relation to their legal position and public access.

The soundtrack to Open House | Divided Estates is created entirely from copyright-expired recordings and fair use samples taken from the extensive and idiosyncratic record collection. For MK Gallery a new version of Open House | Divided Estates has been assembled for European distribution in 2014. The film and its soundtrack are distributed under a copyleft license (cc by-sa3.0).

Biblioteca, Tapanco, Recámara - MK Gallery

Biblioteca, Tapanco, Recámara is a new sound installation that takes music ripped from Luis Barragán's vinyl collection, recorded in three different rooms in Barragán's house, and presents them as an archival audio stream outside MK Gallery.

The work appropriates the tactics of Mexico City's ambulantes – travelling music vendors who ride the city's Metro system selling pirate CDs while broadcasting chopped-up preview snippets of their catalogue from hacked backpack sound systems. The audio installation features out-of-copyright snippets, loops and fragments of transfers from Barragán's vinyl collection – echoing elements of the soundtrack for the artists’ film Open House | Divided Estates (screening at MK Gallery in May) and previewing elements to be used in the forthcoming Barragán Sound System event (which will take place at MK Gallery in June).

Playhead: a Parallel Anthology

Playhead (2013) by Eileen Simpson and Ben White builds on an ongoing project initiated by Open Music Archive for 17th Biennale of Sydney 2010 taking as a starting point the 1952 release Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music. The project brings together alternative public domain versions of tracks from the anthology not closed down by copyright, from non-attributed folk versions and covers to commercial recordings whose proprietary interests have expired. New copyleft iterations are simultaneously generated from elements of the archive material.

Schizophonia explores the histories of music, sound and speech as reinterpreted and written by artists. Many of these artists share an interest in sonic archives; they collect, revive and generate recordings - whether unconventional, popular, politicised or dormant - and examine the ways in which these are circulated.

ATL 2067 - Flux Night, Atlanta

ATL 2067 imagines a future Atlanta. 1920s recordings from the city, fixed during the early days of the recording industry and controlled under copyright in the USA until 2067, mutate into new beats for emcees and rappers. Special guest hosts bring exclusive live performances:

Delving into the personal archive of Mexican architect Luis Barragán (1902-1988), UK artists Eileen Simpson and Ben White (Open Music Archive) explore the architect’s record collection, housed in his former private residence. Barragán, well known for his devotion to the practice of solitude, clearly found refuge in music. Record players and speaker systems are installed in almost every room in his house (including the garden) and the house and collection operate as a kind of storage and playback system.

Through their research at Casa Barragán, the artists have explored the legal terrain of the music in Barragán’s record collection – particularly in relation to the complex web of propriety rights locked within the recordings. At the present time Mexico currently boasts the most restrictive copyright law worldwide, with legal revisions in 1994 and 2003 extending copyright in recorded sound to 100 years from both the date of recording and the death of the author. The artists gleaned material from the collection that achieved the status ‘copyright-expired’ before the legal changes, in an attempt to extract public domain music and audio fragments from vinyl and shellac 78s.

Barragán Sound System is a live event using public archive recordings as source material, with guest producers invited to process and remix through short live performances. The event, which takes place during the week of Día de los Muertos, brings to life works, with a legal status identified primarily through the date of the death of the author. Barragán Sound System features: Live performances by invited guests Rogeilo Sosa, Carmina Escobar and Andres Solis who will remix the archive source; an Open Music Archive DJ set of public tracks from the collection, plus a preview of the artists forthcoming film shot at Casa Barragán.

de_sitio, Mexico City

de_sitio is a non-profit platform with no permanent address devoted to the conception, development and promotion of contemporary art projects. de_sitio seeks to expand the possibilities of collaboration in different contexts with different organizations and individuals in order to foster continuous and consistent exchange in the development of ideas and concrete research. These are shared through different formats such as publications, residencies, exhibitions and other public programs. Focusing on the work process, de_sitio is a flexible and critical platform that prioritizes those projects based on dialogue.

As the first Jordanian audio-visual works begin to fall into the public domain, a constellation of interests are translating, drafting and revising copyrights laws, trade agreements and licences to control the flow of culture and build new markets.

Against the backdrop of these emerging intellectual property markets, in 2008 artists Eileen Simpson and Ben White embarked on a period of research in Amman, Jordan – speaking to lawyers, copyright activists, software developers, artists, musicians, journalists, curators, film makers and critics – in an attempt to seek out the common cultural resources of Jordan’s public domain.

The result is Struggle In Jerash – a project convened around a lost 1957 Jordanian feature film of the same name, which fell out-of-copyright the year of the artists’ residency, and is used as a catalyst to explore value and meaning in archival material.

The Admission to the Seminar is free, but the number of places is limited, please RVSP to: E.L.Nadin@lboro.ac.uk

Song Division - Camden Arts Centre

Artists Eileen Simpson and Ben White develop a series of experimental events exploring the sonic potentials of materials gleaned from the edges of the public domain. Simpson and White have sourced a range of songs from early commercial releases that are currently subject to a conflict in copyright status through a split in ownership between lyrics and musical composition.

Manuscripts and recordings have been edited, redacted, cut-up and processed to suppress copyright-secured elements and enable the release of public domain layers from the proprietary control of commercial publishers. Invited guests process the collected material through short live performances.

Shadowboxing, Royal College of Art, London

Open Music ArchivePre-release

Recorded: Thursday 17th March 2011 (18:30 – 20:30)

Broadcast: scheduled for 2021

We were invited by Sean Dockray to contribute to his Public Monument. We produced a future public domain radio programme – projecting forward a selection of out-of-copyright archive music and recordings currently controlled under copyrights due to expire by the time of broadcast in the year 2021.

In 2011 in the UK, the term of copyright in a musical composition is limited to the life of the author plus 70 years, while the term of copyright in a sound recording is limited to 50 years from the date of recording. Once this bundle of proprietary rights expires, a music recording enters the public domain and is held in common. The legal frameworks, which define the limits of the public domain, are by no means fixed. The future of the public domain is precarious – the field of culture is increasingly colonised for private interests as proprietors of intellectual property continually lobby for the extension of their control.

Pre-release optimistically opens up a future channel for public domain material beyond individual proprietary and commercial interests – a truly free broadcast for an imminent public domain.

Tempo Documentary Festival, Stockholm

We are also contributing to the event Reality is Fiction:Saturday 12 March 12:30 – 13:30 Skrapan
with Göran du Rées (professor Film School Gothenburg), Per Wirten (author and journalist) and Ben White and Eileen Simpson
Moderator: Shang Imam (journalist at Swedish Radio)NOTE: discussion is in English

Artists Film Club - ICA London

Artists Film Club - The Brilliant and The Dark

Institute of Contemporary Arts
The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH

2 December 2010

Screening and Discussion 7:30 pmLive Performance 8:15 pm (doors)

Eileen Simpson and Ben White present their new short video work The Brilliant and the Dark, a restaging of a 1969 cantata for women’s voices of the same name. Following a discussion with the artists and choir leader Deborah Coughlin (chaired by curator Anna Colin), the radically remixed cantata will be performed live by the extraordinary 22-piece women’s choir Gaggle.

Free, Book for the Screening, Discussion and Live Performance (limited capacity) or only for the Live Performance
Please call the Box Office on 020 7930 3647 to reserve your tickets.

The Brilliant and the Dark live performance supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England

LuckyPDF TV Autoitalia Live

Running from the 9th October 2010 and broadcasting for 5 consecutive Saturdays at 5pm, Auto-Italia was transformed into a fully functioning independent TV studio.

We contributed to the last episode broadcast live Saturday 12th November:

Through re-enactment and lip-synching, Open Music Archive present a series of musical vignettes structured around public domain recordings from 1920s blues and jazz to 1960s soul via 1930s dance band crooners.

Al Bowlly’s 1936 newsreel appearance is scrambled (You’ve Got What Gets Me reversed and flipped as Me Gets What Got You’ve) and Vaughn De Leath’s 1927 crooning of Are You Lonesome Tonight? is melodically de-saturated and retroactively mutated by a 1960s monotone female Elvis.

Catalogue screening at SLG

The Brilliant and The Dark video screening as part of:

Catalogue presents Film screening and Tatiana Trouvé in conversation

6 October 2010, 7pm, Free

South London Gallery
65 Peckham Road
London SE5 8UH

To celebrate its first anniversary, Franco-British online contemporary art magazine Catalogue presents a special evening comprising a screening of films by artists featured in the magazine during its first year of publication, as well as a rare opportunity for a limited audience to hear Tatiana Trouvé in conversation with an invited speaker.

The Brilliant and The Dark Live

Thursday 23 September7 - 8.30 pm

Eileen Simpson and Ben White have invited the extraordinary 22 piece women's choir Gaggle to reinterpret The Brilliant and the Dark, a 1969 cantata for women's voices and to perform it live at The Women's Library.

In addition they have asked vocalist Ellen Southern to create a new copyleft remix score, which will be performed with live band and singers on the same night.

All will be accompanied by an exclusive DJ set created by Eileen Simpson that celebrates music produced by women, gleaned from The Women's Library

For the exhibition we negotiated with copyright owners music publishers Josef Weinberger for permission to use elements from the work and invited the all-women choir Gaggle to remix the music and lyrics of the original composition for a new music video. Filmed on location in The Women's Library exhibition hall, the video re-animates the 1969 performance through restaging situations – from the backstage preparations, to choreographed moments in the live event – which are documented in photographs held in the Library’s collection. The performers are seen in new costumes referencing the originals and amidst remade props.

Parallel Anthology - Whitechapel Late

Friday 30 July, 8pm

Whitechapel Gallery
77-82 Whitechapel High Street
London E1 7QX

An evening of music inspired by musicologist, record collector and artist Harry Smith’s Anthology of American Folk Music. Simpson and White have collected parallel public domain versions of the anthology recordings not closed down by copyright - from non-attributed folk versions, to commercial recordings whose proprietary interests have expired. For this event musicians and producers have been invited to perform covers and remixes of Parallel Anthology for a night of plugged and unplugged performances.

Berlin Documentary Forum

The BERLIN DOCUMENTARY FORUM is a new programmatic initiative at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt. It is an interdisciplinary festival showcasing visual, audiovisual and performative works from all over the world. It is also the first festival to stage a forum that debates the contemporary documentary as a politically committed form of representation.

Curator Eduardo Thomas presents a selection of contemporary experimental documentaries – all shown as German premieres. The program brings together films recently made in South America, the Middle East and Asia. The discussions with the filmmakers depart from previously dominant notions such as ‘authorship’, ‘authority’ and ‘authenticity’.

LOOP Barcelona

London Seen will be launched at this year’s edition of LOOP and functions as an exploration into moving-image practices on London’s contemporary art scene; prolific in exhibition formats, interactions and challenges to conventional circuits. The project brings to Barcelona platforms and exhibition spaces which reflect innovative engagement with and display of video and film. Gathering different types of sites for display, production, distribution and/or archiving of moving-image works, London Seen project aims to generate a reflection around the specific treatment of video and film, by bringing together the participant’s practices and trajectories.

Parallel Anthology - 17th Biennale of Sydney

Join Eileen Simpson and Ben White for an evening of free music launching their Parallel Anthology project inspired by musicologist and artist Harry Smith’s Anthology of American Folk Music. Simpson and White have collected parallel public domain versions of the anthology recordings not closed down by copyright; from non-attributed folk versions, to commercial recordings whose proprietary interests have expired. The evening will feature a free CD giveaway and a DJ set featuring Parallel Anthology tracks, recordings from their Open Music Archive and new copyleft remixes, covers and versions made with a range of collaborators.

The Brilliant and The Dark - The Women's Library

The Women's Library
London Metropolitan University
Old Castle Street
London E1 7NT

12 May - 2 October 2010
FREE

The Women's Library exhibitions are open Monday to Friday, 9.30am to 5.30pm, with a late evening opening on Thursday until 8.00pm.

curated by Anna Colin

Struggle In Jerash - Gasworks London

I Want to See / Struggle in Jerash
Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige / Eileen Simpson and Ben White

Gasworks
155 Vauxhall Street
London SE11 5RH

16th April 2010 - 30th May 2010
Opening: Thursday 15 April 2010

As the first Jordanian audio-visual works begin to fall into the public domain, a constellation of interests are translating, drafting and revising copyrights laws, trade agreements and licences to control the flow of culture and build new markets.

Against the backdrop of these emerging intellectual property markets, in 2008 artists Eileen Simpson and Ben White embarked on a period of research in Amman, Jordan – speaking to lawyers, copyright activists, software developers, artists, musicians, journalists, curators, film makers and critics – in an attempt to seek out the common cultural resources of Jordan’s public domain.

The result is Struggle In Jerash – a project convened around a lost 1957 Jordanian feature film of the same name, which fell out-of-copyright the year of the artists’ residency, and is used as a catalyst to explore value and meaning in archival material.

Conference "Our Way, by the Way. New Strategies for Culture" took place in the Warsaw University Library between the 11th and the 13th of December 2009. Lectures and discussions were dedicated to the issues of alternative strategies for independent culture and its possible transformations

Ghost Trace Stellar

Organised by Polytechnic & Kate Sweeney. Part of the Polytechnic ecologies programme

We're working with Polytechnic to develop an evening of free music at Star and Shadow, an open volunteer-run social space and Cinema in Newcastle. We're inviting bands, musicians, producers and DJs to perform covers, versions, remixes or interpretations of the 1920s and 30s out-of-copyright folk, blues, and jazz from the Open Music Archive. A series of live plugged and unplugged performances will be recorded and licensed under Creative Commons ShareAlike, generating a new resource - free for use and reuse in the future.

The event opens up a temporary channel for music, exchange and discussion that operates beyond individual proprietary and commercial interests.

Felix's Machines

Eileen Simpson and Ben White (Open Music Archive) play a DJ set featuring out-of-copyright clips, blips and loops sampled from 19th Century music boxes, player pianos and other automated music machines. This is followed by a performance of new compositions made in collaboration with Felix Thorn for Felix's Machines, and assembled from out-of-copyright material for the player piano.

FREE GIFT: a copyleft licensed CD featuring the new compositions and source files will be given away on the night.

Open Music Archive Outlet, London

Artists Eileen Simpson and Ben White set up the first temporary outlet for their Open Music
Archive. Distributing direct to the public, the outlet makes available the out-of-copyright and copyleft
material from the archive on CDs, CDRs, and vinyl. Featuring new live recordings from Serafina
Steer, Hest, Magic Arm, Sisters of Transistors, Per Ahlund and Mathias Josefson (Fylkingen),
MC Strategy (Broke 'n' English); studio recordings by Homelife Duo, Liz Green, Sundowner; clips, blips and loops sampled mechanical music boxes; and 1920s and 30s archive source recordings by Leroy Carr, Virginia Liston, Cleo Brown and Honey Hill and more. . .

Visitors to the outlet can browse, listen and take away the music. The CDs and records are available
in exchange for a suggested donation and all material is out-of-copyright or copyleft - free for use and
reuse in the future.

Photosocial, The Photographers' Gallery

Photosocial [4]
29 May 2008 18:30-21:30
Photographers Gallery

See new photography with music, debate and diversion.

The next in an ongoing series of bar nights will include a debate on The Amateur vs the Professional as well as a projection of Screen Tests by Neil Cummings, Marysia Lewandowska, Eileen Simpson and Ben White.

Free, spaces limited, so come along early!

Electronic Music Festival, Amman

Outdoor screening of Screen Tests, and Dragline with live musical accompaniment by Ben White. The music, which has been sourced from out-of-copyright early 20th Century 78rpm records will be manipulated in real-time.

Disclosures, London

For Disclosures Eileen Simpson & Ben White create Declose, a project to create a copyleft licensed 12" vinyl scratch tool containing a range of samples, beats and extracts made from the out-of-copyright blues, jazz and folk housed in the Open Music Archive.

The artists promote collaboration and seek to explore its significance and value for creative production. For Declose they invite producers and members of the burntprogress community to create new remix tracks, short vocal snippets, percussive noises, samples, breaks and beats - made entirely from the out-of-copyright music in the Open Music Archive - to make up the battle vinyl.

Declose Launch Event:

Featuring scratch routines, live experiments and improvisation using the Declose vinyl by:

Clips, Blips and Loops #2, Geneva

For Clips, Blips and Loops #2, we are inviting producers, musicians and DJs to contribute to the collection of free source tools available here. This is an extension of a project developed in Stockholm, November 2007. In February 2008 all of the tools will be gathered together to produce a CD that will be freely distributed at a public performance at an event in Geneva on 13th March.

Loose Booty, London

For Loose Booty, a new exhibition by Pearl Projects, Eileen Simpson & Ben White have brought together a number of different cover versions of Pinetop's Boogie Woogie, originally written by Clarence "Pinetop" Smith of Chicago (d. 1929). The various out-of-copyright versions, including those by Bing Crosby and Honey Hill, and a new track made entirely from the out-of-copyright elements, are to be burned on CDs and given away for free at the exhibition as a way of disseminating materials that are in the public domain.

Vegas Gallery
64-66 Redchurch Street
London E2 7DP

After Party - featuring Open Music Archive out-of-copyright/copyleft laptop and DJ set
23 January 9pm 'til late at Green and Red Basement Bar 51 Redchurch Street, E2

Screen Tests - The Bigger Picture, Manchester

Screen Tests - Neil Cummings, Marysia Lewandowska, Eileen Simpson, Ben White
The film unfolds as a series of Andy Warhol-like screen tests, slowly revealing the location and the occupation of those before the camera - students and models from the Manchester School of Art.

Broadcast Times - Neil Cummings, Marysia Lewandowska, Eileen Simpson, Ben White
As the exhibition train leaves the platform, we are taken on a journey of 'a happy hunting ground for tycoons' the birth of commercial television broadcasting.

Who Makes And Owns Your Work, Stockholm

In an attempt to cross the boundaries of idea and practice, Iaspis and Konstfack initiated a project on production, distribution and ownership of cultural matter and artistic knowledge starting in December 2006. On 17th November 2007 the project will open itself up by letting the gathered knowledge be combined with that of invited guests, in an event aiming at an in-depth look on the making and owning of contemporary culture.

Free-to-air (Cornerhouse, Manchester)

From 15-25th July 2007 Open Music Archive will be resident at Cornerhouse, Manchester's international centre for contemporary arts.

For two weeks Eileen Simpson & Ben White will be producing a series of live events and programmes for a temporary FM radio station broadcasting across Manchester. (106.5FM)

We're inviting bands and musicians to respond to the rare out-of-copyright folk, blues, and jazz from the Open Music Archive; to work with forgotten lyrics, chords, melodies and beats, and to make new cover versions of forgotten tracks.

For two weeks the gallery will host live plugged and unplugged performances and one-off broadcasts by Manchester's finest upcoming and established bands and musicians.